Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Reborn
- Environments are beautiful. The game doesn’t feature more advanced technologies like volumetric lighting, but still it offers some beautiful sights. The graphics options don’t offer many options for tweaking the performance - most importantly you can adjust the detail drawing distance and turn on/off Advanced Grass. The Advanced Grass is basically a richer ground foliage. While it didn’t seem to significantly affect the performace, I used to have it turned it off for practical reasons - so I could see the animals farther while I was stalking them crouched. The environment still looks very nice even with basic grass. Drawing distance setting has a bigger impact on performance, but most contemporary computers shouldn’t have a problem running it fluently even on maximum setting. Alas the quality of the textures is variable. While some are sufficienlty detailed, some others as if came from the past era of 16-32MB VRAM graphics cards.
– Real player with 26.0 hrs in game
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Carnivores 2 and Carnivores: Ice Age was the first games I got on my PC back in the day, and I played them to death. I even got my original copies somewhere…
I even got mobile versions of both games on my android phone and play them from time to time. Those versions are actually superior to PC, since they both run extremely well and got some new creatures thrown in for free (18 in mobile version as of time of writing this review compared to PCs 9).
So how does this hold up?
P.S. For short version, see TL;DR/ Conclusion at the end
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
Jurassic World Evolution 2
I was going to wait till after christmas to see if this was going to get better, but with down right frustrating stuff going on here, nah this needs to be done now. This is abysmally annoying compared to the first.
I’ll start off with the pros:
Paleobotany is now a part of paddock building itself, very welcome very nice. Good step up.
Automation on the park vehicles is a lot better now… for the most part.
Slightly bigger maps, though it may not seem like it where 1’s were stretched out into long thin lines, these are all most compact and lumpy.
– Real player with 188.1 hrs in game
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Overall I recommend this game with an asterisk which I will go into a bit.
Mechanically, the game is an overall improvement on a base level from the previous game, at least as far as the core functions of the dinosaurs, park building, and pinning down what your guests need to get a five star park is. Makes it a lot more engaging then simply plopping down a hotel, arcade, clothes shop and restuarant near every viewing gallery. Guests wants are communicated slightly better and paths, shelters, etc. make even a bare bones five star challenge park look like a beautiful well done theme park in contrast to previous games where its a mess of buildings and hotels huddled in one place to artificially inflate a rating with a big multisectioned square of fences with nothing but diplos and dilophos in them.
– Real player with 125.2 hrs in game
Reptiles: In Hunt
An adventure game with the story of a hunter who tries to find his lost son, set in a post apocalyptic world ruled by dinosaurs and reptilian humanoids.
It’s content is very nice for an indie title. The playtime is about 4-6 hours.
The story is quite simple without decisions, still enough to keep up the interest.
The graphics and the map design looks fine.
There are even some really beautiful places which can make the player to stop and simply enjoying the view. There are some graphical bugs, but none of those are serious.
– Real player with 25.4 hrs in game
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TLDR: Reptiles: In Hunt has more bugs than dinosaurs, but despite its many failings there is a gaming experience worth hunting in this indie title…it just needs a lot more evolution before we can call it a ‘clever girl.’
I completed Reptiles: In Hunt today - in total, it took me a little under 10 hours (9.8 hours). Looking at other reviewers time with the game, I suspect I might be one of the few people to leave a review who’ve played this game to the end (at least, at the time of writing), so I want to offer some thoughts.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
Birthdays the Beginning
Birthdays the Beginning is probably my most reluctant recommendation of a game I can give.
It has so many gaping, terrible problems with it. Just check out all the other reviews, most of them sum it up.
The game is uninteractive, the animals barely do anything, might as well just be numbers with a static sprite.
It’s all a game of population control. That’s it.
It can be incredibly, incredibly frustrating trying to get certain species to spawn because they need exact precise requirements for long periods of time and balancing other populations to be in harmony. It’s a mess.
– Real player with 56.1 hrs in game
I would tentatively give this game a thumbs up. In the couple of days since it was released, I have played way too many hours.
First, the many negatives:
- This game has clearly not been fully implemented for PC and keyboard & mouse. The tutorial talks about using the ‘left stick’ and ‘right stick’, which makes it even more difficult to understand the controls. The key bindings are at best tricky and at worst terrible: the game uses WASD for moving, arrow keys for moving the camera (the mouse does this too, but very slowly), and XFGHJKLI for menu selections. For some reason, I (i) is used for both favouriting items and switching between macro and micro, which means you end up with a load of favourites, and have to be extra careful not to press J and use them accidentally.
– Real player with 35.8 hrs in game
Jurassic World Evolution
Jurassic World: Evolution is a game that is stilted, sterile and constrictive in its park building gameplay, level design and soundtrack. Being a spiritual successor to 2003’s Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, it somehow manages to come short of doing certain things better than its predecessor even with the impressive and amazing visuals, increased dinosaur roster and DLCs.
Its park building management is incredibly shallow and the game feels largely incomplete despite the current dinosaur roster size and especially without the DLC packs.
– Real player with 128.9 hrs in game
5 hours in and I love it. Been awhile since a game made me stay up to 3AM
– Real player with 87.8 hrs in game
Prehistoric Kingdom
Take control of limitless power to build, manage and grow the ultimate zoo for extinct animals in Prehistoric Kingdom.
Design and decorate beautiful habitats using an array of powerful creative tools. Grow jungles, carve rivers and raise mountains across the enormous playable area to create the perfect park for your specimens.
Unlock your creativity with robust modular building tools to construct housing and shelters by hand.
Take up the role of park manager by developing the infrastructure to care for guests, animals and staff alike. Ensure resources and safety is kept in-order to delay the inevitable!
From the majestic Woolly Mammoth to the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, undo the rules of extinction by breeding a diverse selection of prehistoric wildlife.
Find new creatures and genetic skins by discovering genetic material from all over the world, unleashing unseen levels of customization and choice.
Prehistoric Tales
Tags: Clicker - Cooldown
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Facebook type game. 50% clicker where you gather ressources and use them to build more ressource hotspots and population cap houses. 50% HOMM-style combat. The combat half is tacked on and ultimately meaningless. The ressource half is spam and grind heavy. You’d be better off playing Bravelands for casual tactics and the promised land for the ressource management
Review: Game is rather pleasant. Audiovisually it strikes a nice balance, mostly good audio all around, nothing spectacular but very competently done. The villagers are grown woman that makes newborn baby sounds which is rather offputting but might trigger some biologically programmed protective instinct in some players. The clicker aspect works fairly well but is, as expected, all filler and very grind heavy. It did not seem to suffer much from any mobile or flash leftovers with the ability to have a lot of workers present and being left to spawn any ressource spawning hotspot and in any quantity one wishes within map limits. Where the game falls short is that all this grinding is to power the other half which is a HOMM style combat strategy. The variety of unit is understandably limited, the artifacts for the only hero are slow coming and not terribly varied and the upgrade path for the multiple combat abilities are neat but ultimately pointless. The whole tactical map is non interactive except for the occasional hostile hotspot being created. By the time enough foes are encountered to make this a relevant part of the game you will most likely have grinded your way to the final units and will be drowned in wealth. Beating the encounters is thus trivial without any tactics and the turn based nature of it becomes all the more tedious and unwanted. With no auto-resolve button and with nothing left on offer from the game, you will most likely want to discontinue play. The game will keep feeding you side-objectives that increase experience like making a certain amount of buildings or clearing new hostiles. Slogging through those will see you through to to the game’s ending, but not nearly fast enough for the fast increasing boredom.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
I got this as a mystery game for free alongside one of my Insanity Sale purchases on Fanatical, and I wasn’t expecting a lot when I checked Steam and saw the pricing - but I was pleasantly surprised once I started playing. :)
Prehistoric Tales is a cute and relaxing management game (with dinosaurs!) where you get to collect various resources, build your very own cozy settlement, trade with sailor merchants who will frequently offer you dubious deals, and battle the encroaching hostiles in turn-based fashion. It’s all very addictive, and although the resource collection can be a bit high on the clicking-maintenance at times, you can also unlock skills which help with that.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
RoboVDino
Fun game. Starts simple then becomes faster and more frantic as you progress. The developer is good people and it is great to support indie developers. Overall have enjoyed so far.
– Real player with 92.4 hrs in game
50% Robo
50% Dino
100% Video game
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
Saurian
Saurian… Where do I begin. This was a near-personal game to me as I connected with it so well. As you may have gathered from my profile picture alone, I love dinosaurs, and this was right up my alley.
Though in EA and very, very buggy as of the time of this review ( 30/11/2017) It still proved some great content and a realistic view into the life of Dakotaraptor. (More playables added soon: In order: Pachycephalosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex then Ankylosaurus and Anzu)
Positives:
-Feels great, every minute movement and turn (Except Jumping, ocassionally) just feels amazing.
– Real player with 98.0 hrs in game
Very few games let you play as a dinosaur. And the ones that do are based more at their monstrous appearance rather than what they really are: Animals.
Saurian is definitely one of a kind. There is no dinosaur game to date that allows you play as dinosaurs in their natural habitat but above all else. Deploying as much accuracy as possible.
The idea of a game like this was long overdue and it was about time we got it. Does it deliver?
Disclaimer:
I know this game is in Early Access. This game is not nearly half of what the developers intend. The game constantly changes, adding in new animals and updating gameplay to make it function better while making it all the more fun.
– Real player with 51.6 hrs in game
Animals Memory: Dinosaurs
Simple, no fuss memory game with increasing difficulty with lovely pictures of dinosaurs and fairly easy to obtain achievements.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
A cheap memory game. Not that difficult, and not over-priced. Featuring dinosaurs.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game